Common krait and MacClelland’s coral snake
Date
1872
Creator
Creator - Organisation
M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
38927
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 330mm
width (page): 455mm
width (page): 455mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of two snake species: above, a Common krait, Bungarus caeruleus, and below a MacClelland’s coral snake, Sinomicrurus macclellandi, here referred to as Callophis maclellandi, each showing full body with details of scalation.
Inscribed: ‘FROM NATURE/ Plate 10./ CALLOPHIS MACLELLANDII/ IND MUS/ Length 1’ 2 ½”/ Circum 5/8”/ Drawn by Hurrish Chunder Khan Student. [Above]/ BUNGARUS COERULEUS/ From Life./ Length 2’6” Circum 1 ¾”/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta [Below]’.
Written in the associated description for the common krait: ‘The Krait seems to be common all over India. I am not aware if it be found in the Himalaya. It is found in the fields, grassy plains, rice khets, low scrubby jungle, and among debris of wood or buildings.’
Plate 10 from Joseph Fayrer’s The Thanatophidia of India; being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments (London, 1872). A study of various Indian snake species and how to treat their bites. Complete with colour illustrations to aid classification and identification created by students of the Kolkata School of Art. Published by the colonial government.
Hurrish Chunder Khan, student at the Government School of Art, Kolkata; Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Kolkata Art Studio in 1878.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in colonial India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
Inscribed: ‘FROM NATURE/ Plate 10./ CALLOPHIS MACLELLANDII/ IND MUS/ Length 1’ 2 ½”/ Circum 5/8”/ Drawn by Hurrish Chunder Khan Student. [Above]/ BUNGARUS COERULEUS/ From Life./ Length 2’6” Circum 1 ¾”/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta [Below]’.
Written in the associated description for the common krait: ‘The Krait seems to be common all over India. I am not aware if it be found in the Himalaya. It is found in the fields, grassy plains, rice khets, low scrubby jungle, and among debris of wood or buildings.’
Plate 10 from Joseph Fayrer’s The Thanatophidia of India; being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments (London, 1872). A study of various Indian snake species and how to treat their bites. Complete with colour illustrations to aid classification and identification created by students of the Kolkata School of Art. Published by the colonial government.
Hurrish Chunder Khan, student at the Government School of Art, Kolkata; Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Kolkata Art Studio in 1878.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in colonial India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
Object history
This volume was presented to the Royal Society on 27 July 1872 with an accompanying letter from the author [‘May I beg the Royal Society’s acceptance of a copy of my work on the Poisonous Snakes of India’].
Related fellows
Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907, British) , Surgeon
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